NCCW, one of the largest application service providers in the
Netherlands, relies on its wide
area network (WAN) to deliver hosted services to thousands of
customer locations, as well as replicate
data between its data center in Almere and a disaster
recovery (DR) site in Haarlem using NetApp® SnapMirror® offsite
replication. However, poor performance from the existing shared WAN
infrastructure inhibited customers from taking full advantage of NCCW’s
hosted application services and had compromised recovery point
objectives (RPOs).

“The Silver Peak software gives us the ability to accelerate and manage
our WAN to a degree we had not experienced before,” said Marcel Trams,
manager of infrastructure at NCCW. “One of the best things about Silver
Peak is being able to deploy it as a virtual machine or as a physical
appliance. In either capacity, we can benefit from the same level of
performance improvement and the added flexibility to deploy the
acceleration in any type of environment.”

NCCW deployed both the Silver Peak VX (virtual) and NX (physical)
solutions to accelerate traffic going between their two core data
centers and to customer locations across the Netherlands. The Silver
Peak virtual solutions provided delivery and deployment flexibility that
aligned well with existing customer networks, as well as the company’s
data center virtualization strategy.

With Silver Peak, NCCW has completely addressed its replication and
application performance challenges. Silver Peak has helped NCCW reduce
its ongoing disaster recovery costs by avoiding expensive WAN
infrastructure upgrades, and is helping the company minimize risk by
replicating significantly more NetApp SnapMirror data in less time.

“After deploying the Silver Peak WAN optimizers, we were able to achieve
significant bandwidth improvement and increase our data throughput,”
added Trams. “Bandwidth consumption to our two data centers and our
customer sites was reduced by more than 75%.”

NCCW has also benefited from Silver Peak’s data deduplication
capabilities in the VXOA software. For example, HTTP traffic has been
reduced by more than 80%, while ERP-based traffic has been reduced by
more than 60%.

When it came to accessing hosted applications, response times improved
dramatically and the applications performed as if they were on a local
area network (LAN). Large data transfers that used to take minutes now
took only seconds. This has ultimately translated into increased user
satisfaction and business process productivity improvements.

About NCCW

NCCW
is one of the largest application service providers in the Netherlands.
The company builds, maintains and hosts applications that enable
building societies to efficiently rent and manage housing. NCCW
represents more than 10,000 managed properties, and more than half of
all building societies within the Netherlands rely on NCCW for their
core business process management (BPM), software-as-a-service (SAAS),
infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS), and enterprise resource planning
(ERP) applications.

Note: Silver Peak Systems and the Silver Peak logo are trademarks of
Silver Peak Systems, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks,
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